Knock On The Door Quotes

#1. Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me".

Seth Klarman

#2. If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

Mickey Mantle

#3. A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

Tony Abbott

#4. If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.

James Redfield

#5. The shortest horror story:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Frederic Brown

#6. Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Demons ... they don't just waltz into your life and take over for no reason," she said, her voice going soft again. "They might knock on the door, but ultimately, you have to be the one to invite them in.

Kelly Creagh

#8. When you knock on the door and the selectors do not open it, then knock harder,' has been his idol Sunil Gavaskar's recurring advice to all youngsters, and Rahul set out to do just that.

Devendra Prabhudesai

#9. Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door.

Debasish Mridha

#10. The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

Joan Chen

#11. At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

Michelle Rodriguez

#13. I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.

Suzanne Collins

#14. The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.

Lionel Shriver

#15. I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.

Jan Koum

#16. A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in ...

Andre Benjamin

#17. As Jax went to knock on the door, she nearly stopped him. But the opportunity was eliminated as his knocks faded into silence. "Who?" A sleep-hazy voice called. "Your blushing princess," Jax called in a girlish falsetto. "Go away, Jax.

Elise Kova

#18. When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

Brendon Burchard

#19. Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Gillian Flynn

#20. A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?

Henny Youngman

#21. We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.

Ted Cruz

#22. This is how hatred begins
with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.

Teresa R. Funke

#23. The United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran. What form our government's intolerance will take remains unspecified. I await a knock on the door.

Sam Harris

#24. A knock on the door you hear, a knock on your head you don't.

Dixie Waters

#25. You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.

Jason Flemyng

#26. My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

Kirk Douglas

#27. I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Anna Deavere Smith

#28. You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. I'll make phone calls. I'll call anybody and knock on any door to try and get a location, or get an actor, or get an actress. But no, it was just very easy. We just hit the ground running.

Pierce Brosnan

#30. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.

David Douglas Duncan

#31. Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole
We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold'
Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold
Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco

Eminem

#32. If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

Joanne Harris

#33. Knock on God's door with prayer,
and He will answer you.
Bang on God's door with prayer,
and He will open the door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. I start walking toward my bike with renewed purpose.
"I don't think I need any help to knock on a door."
Carlos yells, "Be careful, my friend. The problem with knocking on doors is you're never quite sure who's going to be on the other side.

Greg Logsted

#35. The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.

Markus Zusak

#36. Don't knock on the devil's door, sweetheart, and expect him not to answer.

M. Robinson

#37. The truth of himself was a lonely boy in an empty house, waiting for someone to knock on his bedroom door and ask if he was okay.

Dennis Lehane

#38. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#39. One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

Duncan Hunter

#40. My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

Tracy Morgan

#41. BREATHE by Annabelle Wolf: "'Sometimes, it looks like you're so worried you forget to breathe,' Troy said calmly. I was about to tell him everything when a sharp knock sounded on the door. We both jumped.

Annabelle Wolf

#42. Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.

Christopher Barzak

#43. When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock!

Nicole Leigh West

#44. When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

Doug Flutie

#45. Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.

J.R. Ward

#46. The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"

Nicki Minaj

#47. I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.

Haruki Murakami

#48. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

J.R. Ward

#49. Let's try to make him come out," said Dill. "I'd like to see what he looks like." Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.

Harper Lee

#50. People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we have to know if they're a friend or an enemy.

Robert Ferrigno

#51. Sometimes your hole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
-Lover Awakened

J.R. Ward

#52. Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?

Rumi

#53. To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#54. It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,
either go through a window, or break down the door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#55. I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

Donatella Versace

#56. Let the whole world knock on that door. I'm not opening it.

Emm Cole

#57. I knock on Grace's door twenty minutes later, ordering myself to keep the gloating to a minimum. But damn, I'm feeling pretty fucking gloaty about the way I've successfully fulfilled all of her demands. It really is a shame that people don't grasp what a stubborn motherfucker I am.

Elle Kennedy

#58. You are the most boring teacher ever."
He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

#59. The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Ralph Nader

#60. Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!

Greg Plitt

#62. Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.
Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.

Katie McGarry

#63. His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door.

Lia Davis

#64. Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).

James C. Dobson

#65. It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

Cynthia Lewis

#66. I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards.

Sally Mann

#67. After all, I was choosing to walk in the front door of Morgan Stanley every day. I didn't have to. I could make a different choice. I had to stop throwing away my power by focusing on what was wrong and focus on ways, to use a baseball term, "to knock the cover off the ball.

Carla Harris

#68. The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#69. Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt

Darynda Jones

#70. You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#71. He didn't hold the door open, instead letting it fly back and knock me in the face.
"Thanks," I muttered, rubbing my nose.
"You're welcome," he said, my sarcasm lost on him as always.

A Meredith Walters

#72. I just wait because I think people will find me. And I'm not the kind of person who will knock on somebody's door. I wait. If they're good for me, they will come towards me.

Ann Demeulemeester

#73. Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

John Abizaid

#74. My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

Karen Scalf Linamen

#75. There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

Keith Richards

#76. I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

Keeley Hawes

#77. If it's cool you're after, then you're knock-knock-knocking on the wrong door. My maximum ambition is to make it to normal.

Harry Bingham

#78. Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'

Russell Peters

#79. Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#80. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

Ray Bradbury

#81. I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Magic Johnson

#82. I knock cheerfully on the super's door - shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits!

Kristan Higgins

#83. Without bothering to knock, he turned the knob and pushed open the door.
"Jesus fuck!" he yelled, slamming the door closed.
"Knock much?" Danny screamed from inside her room, where he'd just seen her naked, on her knees, getting nailed by her husband.
Fucking hell.

Madeline Sheehan

#84. The eidolons started pounding on the door.
'Who is it?' Leo called.
'Valdez!'
'Valdez who?

Rick Riordan

#85. People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

Nancy Reagan

#86. Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Max Lucado

#87. When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

Jason Bateman